Texts

Tractatus de Purgatorio sancti Patricii

H. of Saltry

Latin
prose
Religious texts

On the Purgatorium sancti Patricii and the vision of a knight called Owein

Author

H. of SaltryH. of Saltry

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H. of Sawtry (Saltry)

Manuscripts

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Language

Latin

Date

c. 1180

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

Related: L’espurgatoire seint PatrizL’espurgatoire seint Patriz

An Old French verse rendering of the Tractatus de Purgatorio sancti Patricii, a Latin narrative on the adventures of an Irish knight named Owein who travels to St Patrick’s Purgatory (Station Island, Lough Derg) to atone for his sins and experiences visions of purgatory. The translation was undertaken by Marie de France towards the end of the 12th century. Aside from her prologue and epilogue, the text remains relatively faithful to its source text.

Purdan PadrigPurdan Padrig

A Middle Welsh version of the Tractatus de Purgatorio sancti Patricii, a popular Latin text which offers an account of the afterlife through the vision of an Irish knight who has travelled to ‘St Patrick’s Purgatory’ (Station Island, Lough Derg).

Classification

Religious textsReligious texts
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Subjects

pilgrimages to St Patrick’s Purgatory
pilgrimages to St Patrick’s Purgatory

id. 66519

pilgrimages⟨religious practices and behaviours⟩, journeys
pilgrimages

id. 51678

County Donegal

County Donegal/Dún na nGall

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See more Loch DergLoch Derg

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See more Purgatóir Pátraic

Purgatóir Pátraic ... Patrick's Purgatory / Station Island

County Donegal

An Augustinian house and a site of pilgrimage on an island on Lough Derg, Co. Donegal.

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] Migne, Jacques-Paul [ed.], Saeculum XII. Eugenii III, Romani pontificis, epistolæ et privilegia, Patrologia Latina, 180, Paris, 1855.

Internet Archive – 1902 reprint: <link>

973–1004C [‘Henricus Salteriensis: Tractatus De Purgatorio Sancti Patricii Hibernorum Apostoli’] direct link

[ed.] Warnke, Karl, Das Buch vom Espurgatoire S. Patrice der Marie de France und seine Quelle, Bibliotheca Normannica, 9, Halle: M. Niemeyer, 1938.

An edition of the Latin text together with the French translation by Marie de France

[ed.] Colgan, John, Triadis Thaumaturgæ seu divorum Patricii, Columbæ et Brigidæ, trium veteris et maioris Scotiæ, seu Hiberniæ sanctorum insulae communium patronorum acta, Louvain: apud Cornelium Coenestenium, 1647.

comments: The title page reads in full (normalised spellng): Triadis Thaumaturgæ, seu divorum Patricii, Columbæ, et Brigidæ, trium veteris et majoris Scotiæ, seu Hiberniæ, Sanctorum insulæ, communium patronorum acta, a variis, iisque pervetustis ac Sanctis, authoribus Scripta, ac studio R.P.F. Joannis Colgani, in conventu F.F. Minor. Hibernor, Stritior, Observ., Lovanii, S. Theologiæ Lectoris Jubilati, ex variis bibliothecis collecta, scholiis et commentariis illustrata, et pluribus appendicibus aucta; complectitur tomus secundus sacrarum ejusdem insulæ antiquitatum, nunc primum in lucem prodiens.

Digital.onb.ac.at: <link> Google Books: <link>, <link>

273–289

[ed.] Messingham, Thomas, Florilegium insulae sanctorum: seu vitae et acta sanctorum Hiberniae, Paris, 1624.

Google Books: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

86–109

[tr.] Picard, Jean-Michel, Saint Patrick’s Purgatory: a twelfth-century tale of a journey to the other world, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1985.

Secondary sources (select)

MIRABILE, Online: Studio del Medioevo Latino, 2009–present. URL: <http://www.mirabileweb.it>.

abstract:

MIRABILE è un knowledge management system per lo studio e la ricerca sulla cultura medievale promosso dalla Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino e dalla Fondazione Ezio Franceschini ONLUS di Firenze.

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Haren, Michael, and Yolande De Pontfarcy, The medieval pilgrimage to St Patrick’s Purgatory: Lough Derg and the European tradition, Enniskillen: Clogher Historical Society, 1988.

Pontfarcy, Yolande de, “Le Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii de H. de Saltrey: sa date et ses sources”, Peritia 3 (1984): 460–480.